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Jack Balas is an artist originally based in Chicago and Los Angeles, who divides his time between painting, drawing and photography, cross-referenced at times with writing and other media . A recipient in 1995 of an Individual Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York), the Denver Art Museum, the Tucson Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. A portfolio of his paintings "Today I Drove Along the Rio Grande" was published in issue #120 of The Paris Review (New York). His 2008 museum solo project "We'll Be Seeing You" appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. In 2014-2016 and in 2022-2023 he exhibited work in group shows sponsored by the US State Department's Art in Embassies Program, at the United States Embassies in Vienna, Austria, and Stockholm, Sweden. In 2017 his large solo show "Maine And Again" appeared at the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor, Maine, and in 2019 his solo "Against the Grain: Men, Maps and Other Incorrections" was featured at the Gallery of Art at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
This website includes a broad spectrum of the artwork divided into individual media in the above navigation bar. You can read an artist statement and get an overview of the work by taking a TOUR. The newest painting and photo work is in the black area below, while a few other highlights from the past are in the adjacent gray.
& NEWS APPEARING IN THE WINTER 2024 PHYSIQUE PICTORIAL from the BOB MIZER FOUNDATION JACK BALAS: SOME DAYS (I JUST WANT TO PAINT) JANUARY 11- MARCH, 2024 JACK BALAS CLAMP 247 WEST 29TH ST NEW YORK, NY 10001 SPECIAL GUEST DUANE MICHALS SATURDAY JANUARY 13, at 4pm OCTOBER 27-- DECEMBER 3, 2023 JACK BALAS AND WES HEMPEL FRONT RANGE, BACK TO BACK WILLIAM HAVU GALLERY 1040 Cherokee St. Denver, CO 80204 AD_MISSION (Those ads in ArtForum) JackRoad Blog Entry
United States Embassy Vienna, Austria and United States Embassy Stockholm, Sweden Art in Embassies Program HAND OF SORROW, AND THEY WANDERED THROUGH THE LAND OF JOY: A LEGACY OF MARSDEN HARTLEY (Group exhibition) October 28, 2022--March 18, 2023 Bates College Lewiston, Maine A proposal to support artists from auctions SOLO SHOW: NOVEMBER, 2020--JANUARY, 2021 JACK BALAS: COMMON GROUND: PAINTINGS FOR AMERICA WILLIAM HAVU GALLERY 1040 Cherokee St. Denver, CO 80204 Reviewed in The Denver Post by Ray Mark Rinaldi JANUARY 9--FEBRUARY 29, 2020 JACK BALAS: CHECKERED PASSED CLAMP ART 247 WEST 29TH ST NEW YORK, NY 10001 INSTALLATION PHOTOS AUGUST 19 --OCTOBER 5, 2019 JACK BALAS: AGAINST THE GRAIN: MEN, MAPS AND OTHER INCORRECTIONS Gallery of Art University of Northern Iowa, CATALOG AVAILABLE: available at BLURB.com SOLO SHOW: JACK BALAS: MAINE AND AGAIN University of Maine Museum of Art Bangor, Maine September 15--December 22, 2017 Catalog available from Blurb THE 2015 SOLO SHOW: "ART BEAT" with KATHRYN DAVIS KVSF 101.5 FM October 29, 2015 PODCAST LINK HERE An introduction to the Paintings, Drawings, Photo and Writing. 160 pages availabl;e at BLURB.com solo show in Barcelona, 2009
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver "Artist and catalogue contributor Jack Balas captures the boom mood in his poetic essay about being a laborer for hire. His description of driving across the country as an art shipper in the 80's expresses the increasing vulnerability of the artist through a portrait of the landscape. Looking in the rearview mirror suggests that the 90's represented the point of no return for the contemporary art world." Chief Curator, MoCA Denver. |
PROJECT AND SOLO EXHIBITION MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DENVER (Summer, 2008) |
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© 2002--2024 by Jack Balas. |
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A series of photographs A.K.A. "Studio Men" |
and other sculpture LANDSCAPE TEXT COLLAGE OTHER COOL STUFF |